The Borges Labyrinth, designed in 2011 by English architect Randoll Coate at the behest of Borges’ widow, Maria Kodama, who wanted to remember her husband’s love for Venice, was inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ story "The Garden of Forking Paths" and is composed of more than 3,200 boxwood plants 90 centimetres tall. Seen from above, it looks like an open book with the hedges arranged to form the name Borges and is studded with references to the works of the Argentine writer: a stick, mirrors, two hourglasses, a huge question mark, the tiger, the initials of his wife.
